Spuffure

I apologize for that post. My mental health has been taking a sharp downturn.

If I could get my hands on the guy who came up with the idea that sex sells and so peppered movies with sex stuff, making me addicted to that shit, He’d walk away from me with a face not even a mother could love.

Fifty-O-Nine

Skybatman said:

this site is losing my interest more and more

Minor correction on #3. In 7 years time, only the year 1980 will be 50 years ago. And it was still culturally the '70s in that year.

CourtlyHades296 said:

Most of the best films of all time have already been made, and there’s not much being released mowadays that I have a desire to see now that superhero films are pushing out arthouse films and director-driven fare.

I agree 100%.

Granted, I don’t think modern movies suck per se, I just don’t like them. Just like modern music. That’s something the “wrong generation” crowd don’t get.

I don’t like modern music, but people who like modern pop music have the right to enjoy what they like, and I do too.

Yes and no. It depends on who has it.

How are all these subtle good things happening to me, yet I still feel like shit when I get back home?

And if I’ll eventually lose everything one way or another and suffer, wouldn’t it be best if we didn’t exist at all?

As two wise men once said, there must be more to life than this.

Now, I don’t hate this movie at all, but Napoleon Dynamite. It was very mediocre.

The dance scene was great, though.

5005

Superweapon VII said:

Spuffure said:

Superweapon VII said:

Spuffure said:

Superweapon VII said:

And since I’ve been reminded: Fast Times at Ridgemont High is not a good movie.

I’m curious: what are some other '80s “classics” you dislike?

Aliens, Altered States, An American Tail, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Flash Gordon, and Revenge of the Nerds have all fanned my hatred or indifference. I’d also include Pretty in Pink, but I wasn’t able to finish that one, so it doesn’t feel fair to include it.

Yeah. I get what you’re going at. '80s cheese is not on my diet.

I also completely understand why you don’t really like teen comedies of the era. I find '80s teen-related stuff annoying as shit. Not to mention lowbrow “humour”.

I don’t dislike them as a whole, though. I quite like John Hughes as a filmmaker, actually.

And I got Pretty in Pink mixed up with Sixteen Candles. Pretty in Pink wasn’t bad at all.

Yeah, lots of '80s teen-oriented movies can be good, such as Back to the Future.

I must have confused that with the more specific '80s sex comedies, with brows so low you can’t even see the eyes.

Since you’ve also removed your post, I’ll remove your quote.

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Superweapon VII said:

Spuffure said:

The '[]0s really ended in []2/3.

Fixed that for you, since it’s true across all decades.

Only sometimes. The '70s really started in 1967/8.

The '70s really ended in 1982/3.

StarkillerAG said:

Spuffure said:

Superweapon VII said:

And since I’ve been reminded: Fast Times at Ridgemont High is not a good movie.

I’m curious: what are some other '80s “classics” you dislike?

I’m not him, but for me, it’s Caddyshack. That was my dad’s favorite movie as a teenager, and he always talked about how he wanted to show it to me when I was old enough. But we ended up watching it, and it was just so bland. I barely even remember a single thing about it, I just remember that literally none of the jokes landed at all. Even my dad was wondering why the hell he ever liked that movie.

An important reminder that popular doesn’t always mean great. I felt the exact same way about Monty Python & The Holy Grail, except for the opening credits, which were heart-stoppingly hilarious. I don’t know why it was that specific part of the movie and no other part, but man, if only the rest of the movie was as funny to me as the opening credits.

I do disagree with you on 80s music sucking though, although I guess it’s mainly because I have a much higher level of cheese tolerance than most people. Those songs where a guy with absurd hair screams about believing in yourself while another guy with absurd hair shreds on a guitar are ridiculous, but damn they’re fun. It’s basically the shonen anime spirit transferred into musical form.

I didn’t say '80s music sucked, per se, I meant that it began to start showing signs (subtle at first) of the suckiness that was to befall popular music (and culture) in later decades. I guess my wording made it sound like I said it flatout sucked.

Superweapon VII said:

Spuffure said:

Superweapon VII said:

And since I’ve been reminded: Fast Times at Ridgemont High is not a good movie.

I’m curious: what are some other '80s “classics” you dislike?

Aliens, Altered States, An American Tail, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Flash Gordon, and Revenge of the Nerds have all fanned my hatred or indifference. I’d also include Pretty in Pink, but I wasn’t able to finish that one, so it doesn’t feel fair to include it.

Yeah. I get what you’re going at. '80s cheese is not on my diet.

I also completely understand why you don’t really like teen comedies of the era. I find '80s teen-related stuff annoying as shit. Not to mention lowbrow “humour”.

Superweapon VII said:

And since I’ve been reminded: Fast Times at Ridgemont High is not a good movie.

I’m curious: what are some other '80s “classics” you dislike?

fmalover said:

Spuffure said:

(Very unpopular opinion incoming)

In my personal opinion, the 1980s were when pop culture (music especially) started to flush down the toilet. (This doesn’t mean that EVERYTHING from the era was bad, but there was, IMO, an overall decay in quality.

What really bothers me the most is the persistent obsession with 1980s pop culture.

Seriously? Will it ever end?

I think it’s because many people alive today (mainly Gen X and late Baby Boomers) were kids back then, so I believe it’s that mangy dog known as nostalgia.

There’s also the obsession with the 1990s too, mainly experienced by millennials and some of Gen Z.

However, I think the obsession with the 1980s (and, to an extent, the 1970s) partly comes from the elitism from the “back in my day” stubborn subset of some of the Baby Boomers, who think their time was better than today.

Now, not to shit on that generation, as there are plenty of sane, forward looking members, but the fact that they were called the “Me” Generation says a lot about this.

It’s pretty annoying when some people say that '80s music was better than today when the '80s had their fair share of godawful music like cheesy hair metal and some of synthpop. Same with the '70s, and to add on to this, I think jazz took a major hit in the 50s and 60s.

In fact… A lot of early rock and roll in the 50s was very repetitive, often sharing the exact same melody!!!

This also extends to movies, too (especially American film).

(Very unpopular opinion incoming)

In my personal opinion, the 1980s were when pop culture (music especially) started to flush down the toilet. (This doesn’t mean that EVERYTHING from the era was bad, but there was, IMO, an overall decay in quality.

Whoever is behind those stupid “Hero Wars” ads that keep infesting YouTube deserves a concussion.

TV’s Frink said:

Stripes has very funny scenes but fails as an overall movie (especially the last act which is just boring).

I mostly agree with this. Stripes is definitely not a great film. The funniest scene for me was with Harold Ramis and the immigrants near the beginning of the movie, when the non-English speakers say their first words.

The film was, I’ll admit, quite entertaining. But it was barely funny.

Superweapon VII said:

Spuffure said:

Superweapon VII said:

Meg Myers did herself dirty. Goddamn.

Best or worst?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/do_someone_dirty#:~:text=(informal) To deliberately treat someone,quotations ▼

So that means worst, then.

God, I’m out of touch.

Superweapon VII said:

Meg Myers did herself dirty. Goddamn.

Best or worst?

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My old posts used to be embarassing, but now they’re kind of hilarious. (The 2016-2017 ones, not the 2020-2021 ones)